What kind of hijinks can we expect from the Sussexes at Diana's Statue unveiling? Let's see...
Not much appears to be going on. Living Legends came and went without fanfare ... what's the next event? Super Bowl - Sunday February 11th? Oscar's - March 10th? In the mean time, some things are still rolling along in various starts and stops like Samantha's law suit. Or tax season is about to begin in the US. The IRS just never goes away. Nor do bills (utility, cable, mortgage, food, cars, security, landscape people, cleaning people, koi person and so on). There's always another one. Elsewhere others just continue to glide forward without a real hint of being disrupted by some news out of California. That would be the new King and Queen or the Prince/Princess of Wales. Yes there are health risks which seemed to come out of nowhere. But. The difference is that these people are calmly living their lives with minimal drama.
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The long relationship with Chelsy would seem to argue against my theory, yes. But bisexuality is still in the table. Also, that relationship was more off than on Once they had matured past the student phase. If Harry is gay, or at least attracted to men part of the time, perhaps that was not as evident back in his early 20s when he in Chelsy were hot and heavy item. Maybe he was trying to force something that did not come naturally. We have learned in the interim what a duplicitous little shit he is and he is not above acting a part. The relationship with Cressida, of which many people had high hopes, because she would have been so suitable as a princess in the manner of Sophie Winkleman, Was really brief, just a couple of years and I’m not sure how serious it ever was from either side.
In his eventual wife, we have a person who is contrary to his usual taste in women in every conceivable way. Not just biracial, or a brunette, or a foreigner... a foreigner From a highly unsuitable profession and background...An older woman, a disheveled woman With a messy, criminal family, a documented compulsive liar...A person with whom he appears to have zero natural chemistry, but a whole lot of angst. One who is very likely used up and barren. Multiply married, in past legal trouble of various kinds, Completely disinterested in the history or customs of the country she was marrying into...On every conceivable level, choosing her with a giant F you to his family. There is something seriously wrong here. How can anybody observing this still call it love?
I don’t think a single thing about this union includes sexual compatibility and soulmate hood. M get some really good drugs I have a feeling, and gives him permission to be his worst self. And I think she is also his beard.
Yep, H has PTSD from being an active Royal. A position/situation that half of England would gladly take on. Though the Svengali M might have convinced gullible H that he is *suffering* what PTSD he has.
So I have hedged all my bets, in the end we know nothing, we have nothing. Same as we are not sure where M/N live, or ever lived.
Blackmail?
Prince Harry’s biographer Omid Scobie made allegation about William's aides
Harry told ITV’s Tom Bradby he and his brother ‘were on different paths’ in 2019
In the same programme, Meghan revealed that she was ‘surviving, not thriving’
Mr Scobie claims it was 'no coincidence' William's staff planted story next day
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9753259/Prince-Williams-staff-planted-stories-Harrys-mental-health-author-claims.html
As I so frequently find myself saying these days, `Oh, for crying out loud!'
It's my bedtime so I'll leave you good people to chew this one over. Seems the Harkles are scraping the barrel.
I did the same when I saw
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Hikari...Rumors about Harry's sexuality surfaced in 2018. @Beard Club twitter posted this."Has Prince Harry returned to Botswana AGAIN with boyfriend Adam Bidwell (who he's set-up with a Sentebale Ambassador position 'on-the-rates') for some well-needed gay🌈 #Mantime, amidst #Beard Meghan Markle's ridiculous family soap opera distractions? http://shr.gs/c8zQoFP"
https://mobile.twitter.com/beard_club/status/1028227506565013511
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Later, Hola magazine also talked about him.
WHO WAS THE HUNKY GUY WITH MEGHAN MARKLE AND ARCHIE AT THE POLO MATCH PLAYDATE? https://us.hola.com/royals/20190709fitsp90frz/meghan-markle-archie-harrison-polo-match-hottie-adam-bidwell-swng?viewas=amp
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Today, Adam Bidwell is Sentebale ambassador. Sentebale is a charity founded by The Duke of Sussex and Prince Seeiso in 2006.
https://sentebale.org/who-we-are/
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Note: I'm not claiming that Harry is a homosexual, but that much has been said about it. I just know that a lot of information about it was deleted from social media.
I do think though he could have gotten into precarious situations with encouraged heavy drug use. Not that he didn't use before, clearly he did, but presumably no one around him before had a vested interest in getting him bombed.
Meghan definitely is either attracted to women or her "love bombing" of BFFs involves sexual tension. I have lots of pics taken over many years of me with good friends and lots of pics I took of friends. Some are hugging pictures. A few involve kisses. But none give a sexual vibe to me (and not to friends that I know of-- I've seen some of the pics on display in their homes) That's certainly not true of M's poses with Jessica. Of course, it could also be a message to men including J's hubby-- "I'm hotter than she is." Or "What about a threesome?" But it looks like real attraction to me.
"Oh, this is so funny, we knew she would pop up somewhere" Lol
And
Eat your heart out Megs!👏👏👏
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Omid Scoobie
That's coz Scabies never has any evidence - he just says what his 'master' tells him to say!!
Good boy - SIT!!
Scobie did not provide evidence to support his claims that palace aides or anyone connected to PW was responsible for the alleged briefings
Ie: Adam Bidwell
Bada boom!
Thanks!
"Obviously I don't know but I don't think H is gay. Bi maybe"
I agree With you.
Re: Adam Bidwell
There was a lot of material about them on social media. How I didn't save. I lost. many photos of them in Botswana are missing.
Moreover, the reason H is attracted by M's similarity is obvious. It's H's supreme vanity and egotism. In his eyes, the only thing better than him is two of him!
I always hated the sexual innuendo around Wallis Simpson and her hold over Edward VIII - something the Duchess of York (later Queen Mother) seemed particularly keen to have known. However I do believe something like that underlies the Sussex relationship. Also, that family has a history of being in thrall to their partners, either sexually like their Hanoverian ancestors, Edward VIII and H's own father or romantically like George VI. Nothing would put them asunder.
I've never for a moment believed M loves H. Even when I welcomed her and looked forward to her becoming a working royal, I never believed she loved him. Simply because who could genuinely, deeply love H apart from his blood relatives? What is there to love? What? It's a sad thing to say I know. I thought M would be brisk and clear-eyed and make a good job of it, like a sensible Jane Austen character marrying a little later in life. Making the best of her rather limited husband and appreciating the security he brought to the marriage. How wrong can you be???
Instead he lives in an unending emotional maelstrom. Thousands of miles from everything he knows and his money melting away before his eyes. Hustling for a living in a world that is increasingly indifferent to what he has to offer. And what does he have to offer? Terrifyingly little. Nothing to sustain him for life. As I've said before, I don't know how he sleeps at night. Must be that massive ego that gives him what peace of mind he has.
we don't have any real evidence of many things that are discussed here.
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Exactly this. We don't have enough facts, unfortunately, and there is always a lot of speculation. This maybe spot on or wide of the mark so we never really know.
@Hikari
If H needed a 'beard', surely he could have done better that TBW, who is a liability in so many ways. Again, JMHO.
Bi, Gay men...
both like being with other men right? In reference to 6.
Duke of Windsor liked men too.
I think people have Markle fatigue and are just tired of the constant melodrama.
I think Prince William will wait until Euro 2020 is over. If England wins, Scoobie goes where he deserves: vacuum of the Universe.
Now, "Scooby-Doo", dog loyal to his owner Harry Shaggy Rogers, has won an online petition.
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Stop Omid Scobie’s Bullying!
https://www.change.org/p/stop-omid-scobie-s-online-bullying-harper-s-bazaar-thesocialctv-gmb-abc-gma
https://youtu.be/JJ-zCfXWmQE
I agree that there are raftloads of more appealing beard candidates than TBW. If my supposition and the rather plentiful gossip about H’s man leanings is anywhere near the mark, then Hazza has already had several gorgeous partners in his life that may have bailed—and it was they that bailed, not he—once they realized that H was not the man to make them happy. Perhaps for more reasons then having a bad temper or being a cheapskate. But the contrast to H’s appearance and reputation 6,7 years ago and now cannot be compared. H used to be strapping and hale and at least pretended to be jolly. Now he’s wasted, in all senses, sniveling and repulsive. TBW has certainly had a hand in that, but he was on his way to dissolution when they hooked up. Only a bottom feeder like Smeg would want him now, even as a beard. And I think this toxic business merger of theirs was made under duress on Harry’s part. He got involved with her, and true to form, was bored after six months and try to disentangle himself. She and her coterie weren’t having that because they smelled money in the water and had no compunction against blackmailing him with something very unsavory.
Haz played with fire and got burnt. Now he’s fried beyond recognition. Stupid boy, but my pity is all used up.
I love that video, thanks- better yet are the comments, especially because it's an older video.
This comment was from two years ago:
If he doesn’t leave to LA with her🤦♀️. She will flip her lid into a psychotic blinding rage.
Brilliant find on the video and comments.
Doria has also been the recipient of those glaring, nasty, wilting looks as posted by another Nutty a few threads ago.
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Scobie, Darling, The Taliban beat him to it. They were calling out Harry´s mental health issues all the way back in 2013.
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THROWBACK*
Taliban: Prince Harry has a mental problem
"Prince Harry has incurred the wrath of critics both in Britain and abroad after describing how he killed insurgents in Afghanistan.
In a series of interviews to mark the end of his four-month tour, the Prince (28) said he had taken members of the Taliban "out of the game" during his posting in Helmand.
Take a life to save a life. That's what we revolve around, I suppose," he said.
The Taliban labelled him a "coward" for speaking out only after he had left the country, claiming the third in line to the throne "has probably developed a mental problem" as a result of playing computer games.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said: "This statement is not even worth condemning. It is worse than that. To describe the war in Afghanistan as a game demeans anyone - especially a prince.
It shows the lack of understanding, of knowledge. It shows they are unfamiliar with the situation and shows why they are losing."
He added that he did not believe Harry had even participated in the fighting.
"Maybe he has seen the mujahideen in a movie, but that's it," he said. "I think he has a mental problem, that's why he is saying it is a game"
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/taliban-prince-harry-has-a-mental-problem-29039722.html
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Design Doctor...I'm going to look for this video of Dora.
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Jessica... I don't believe it. I think it's Sussex PR.
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I am going to sleep. I'll take a break from my posts. Promise!Hugs❤️
Remember when, not so long ago, that Nutty suggested that TBW might have incriminating evidence of #6 in compromising positions, i.e., BDSM. Can you imagine him filmed by TBW with a ball gag?
On another note, #6's anger at the child for asking for a photo of the the new baby: it wasn't about the child asking, no, it was #6's anger that the "baby" was fake or hadn't been born yet, and he was asked to carry that burden against his wishes.
Daniela Elser: Meghan's return to Buckingham Palace could be PR nightmare for Queen
3 Jul, 2021 11:55 PM
Since the Oprah interview, Prince Harry has returned home twice while Meghan Markle stayed home due to looking after their children. Photo / Getty Images
news.com.au
By: Daniela Elser
Part 1:
OPINION:
How quaint.
How, in retrospect, positively Victorian that the two times Meghan, Duchess of Sussex joined the royal family for the Queen's official birthday knees up, Trooping the Colour, coverage of the event was dominated by a pearl-clutching furore about her choice to eschew sleeves.
The very fact that her shoulder-baring (and some would argue, Queen-disrespecting) display consumed the media's attention now just seems positively laughable in this post-Orpah interview brave new world.
Queen Elizabeth attended the Royal Windsor Horse Show over the weekend. Photo / AP
Somehow, in only two years the world has gone from Sleevesgate to one where one of Her Majesty's grandchildren popping up on screens to denounce the palace as racist, bullying and negligent is met with a certain ennui and fatigue.
Harry's on the telly, putting the boot into the royal family? Yawn.
However, this week detailed plans for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, a four-day, nationwide celebration that will take place in June next year, were unveiled, with speculation that the Windsors will take to the Buckingham Palace balcony on not one but two occasions for a spot of professional waving.
And it is there, according to a recent Daily Mail report, that 95-year-old sovereign, the remaining nonplussed HRHs and the recalcitrant Sussexes will all be publicly reunited for the first time in (by then) years after Her Majesty reportedly "extended an olive branch" to the controversial couple and invited them to attend.
What? You're wondering how much homebrand gin the Buckingham Palace gift shop might have on hand? Good question.
They're all going to need it.
Because, there is a very pressing, middle-of-the-night-anxiety-inducing problem here (well, if you happen to be an HRH or make your living as a courtier, dodging corgi puppies while fending off Boris Johnson's attempts to get Her Majesty to join his G7 WhatsApp group). How can the Sussexes, and Meghan especially, reappear in the midst of the royal family without her presence totally and utterly obliterating the very celebration?
How the devil can the Queen and royal aides prevent the former Suits star's reappearance on the balcony, both the literal and symbolic bosom of the monarchy, not completely overrun and eclipse the interest in, and focus, on Her Majesty?
There is a very good chance they simply won't be able to.
(It's also worth keeping in mind here that by the time of the Jubilee, Harry and Meghan's son Archie will be 3-years-old and there is every chance that he too could join his extended British family too. After all, his Cambridge cousins have all been delighting crowds with their balcony antics since before they could even walk.)
Thus the stage is set for a PR and logistic nightmare of unrivalled proportions for the palace.
There is, of course, the personal element here, with family hurts and anger aplenty. Harry and Meghan, after all, have done more to tarnish the royal house's global standing in a matter of months than even Sarah, Duchess of York could manage in nearly three decades of tawdry money making ploys.
(cont.)
Such was the underlying bad blood between the Wales brothers that, ahead of Prince Philip's funeral in April, "William and his grandmother worked out together how, in the prevailing circumstances, he could not possibly walk in harmony with Harry behind his grandfather's coffin," royal biographer Robert Lacey wrote in the Times recently.
On the day of the sombre event, "family anger ran deep," according to Lacey. "It was not by accident that neither [Princess] Anne nor Sophie [the Countess of Wessex] exchanged a public word with Harry in the course of the afternoon."
Even this week, "The brothers, we hear from every source, continue not to talk to each other; can barely tolerate each other's company," Lacey has reported.
Still, at least all of that personal enmity can play out far away from Fleet St's prying eyes and with a fortifying brace of finger sandwiches on hand.
What is a much thornier issue, and one that can't be mollified with a Jammy Dodger and a gentle hug, is the far bigger storm on the horizon.
The point of the four-day Jubilee festival isn't just a multimillion pound exercise in shoring up the UK bunting industry. There's a serious message underlying this affair, namely to reinforce the diplomatic import and philanthropic heft of the monarchy.
With the end of one reign, and the beginning of a far, far more controversial one only a matter of years away (not to be too morbid), this Jubilee is central to the current project of royal self-preservation going on right now.
That is, the house of Windsor seems to be focused on doing everything they can right now to buttress the monarchy to ensure it can ride out the potentially rocky years of King Charles III, even wheeling out 7-year-old Prince George this week for what was tantamount to his first official engagement.
That objective could be seriously undermined if the Jubilee bash ends up being thoroughly subsumed by the roiling melodrama of Harry and Meghan's return.
The palace desperately needs to find a way to get the persistent bad taste out of the public's mouths and to remind them why they used to proudly enjoy collecting commemorative royal biscuit tins.
Again, the Sussex soap opera could jeopardise this goal too.
This week we got a sour taste of what the whole Trooping the Colour debacle might be like, with Harry having returned to the UK for the unveiling of the statue of Diana, Princess of Wales that he and brother Prince William had previously commissioned.
The lead up to the event saw a squall of press coverage focused on the miserable state of affairs between the brothers (what? Why are you all looking at me?) with the story dominating British newspaper front pages for days on end.
If things feel a tad feverish right now, Meghan's return is going to be positively pyretic.
Perhaps the biggest lesson here is this: Harry and Meghan are always going to create a frenzy, wherever and whenever they pitch up in the UK. For the palace, their only option might be to simply grin and bear it and pluckily get on with things. They should be good at it, royal wives have been doing exactly that for centuries now.
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In tonight’s ITV documentary, Harry & William: What Went Wrong?, Scobie – who has been an outspoken champion of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – adds: ‘Meghan came in driven and ready to work and that immediately ruffled feathers. She’s a woman well into her 30s: I think she’s proven to herself and the people she’s worked with up until that point that she knows what she’s doing.
‘She was certainly not someone who was going to change herself just to please the people around her. I felt they also had to be reminded: “You’re not the stars of the show here. There is a hierarchy and you don’t come very high in it.” ’
So TBW proved herself and knows what she's doing? I didn't see any evidence of it. As for not changing herself, how arrogant can you get? Did she thing the BRF had to change to accommodate her? Probably. There is a hierarchy and this is the problem, the witch thought she have equal billing with the Queen. Either he's making it up or the witch is even more delusional than we thought.
If he thinks this is going to backfire on William, he's got another thing coming. Wrong strategy.
According to the DM comments no-one is buying Scabies nonsense. 😂 People know he’s Maggot and Mole’s mouthpiece….it’s so transparent. Mole gets back to La La Land and it starts up again. 🙄
I wasn’t sure how Scabies was selling the line …. She was certainly not someone who was going to change herself just to please the people around her. I felt they also had to be reminded: “You’re not the stars of the show here. There is a hierarchy and you don’t come very high in it.
It could be taken either way…one way she wouldn’t be told, nor would she try and understand the institution and the other way he’s making it known Maggot had to be told she wasn’t the star etc.🥴
I do recall wondering about H & M's mental stability and discussing that here. But that was based on things like that stupid SA documentary, hiding in a millionaire's Canadian mansion, putting up that ugly pointless paranoid fencing at Tyler's, H's ridiculous public statements, M's grandiose videos, her willingness to leave an infant to fly to another continent to watch tennis, his permanently disgruntled expressions, her Madonna poses and crazed grinning poses while holding "her baby" by the neck....
@Maneki
I agree that there are raftloads of more appealing beard candidates than TBW. If my supposition and the rather plentiful gossip about H’s man leanings is anywhere near the mark, then Hazza has already had several gorgeous partners in his life that may have bailed—and it was they that bailed, not he—once they realized that H was not the man to make them happy. Perhaps for more reasons then having a bad temper or being a cheapskate. But the contrast to H’s appearance and reputation 6,7 years ago and now cannot be compared. H used to be strapping and hale and at least pretended to be jolly. Now he’s wasted, in all senses, sniveling and repulsive. TBW has certainly had a hand in that, but he was on his way to dissolution when they hooked up. Only a bottom feeder like Smeg would want him now, even as a beard. And I think this toxic business merger of theirs was made under duress on Harry’s part. He got involved with her, and true to form, was bored after six months and try to disentangle himself. She and her coterie weren’t having that because they smelled money in the water and had no compunction against blackmailing him with something very unsavory.
Haz played with fire and got burnt. Now he’s fried beyond recognition. Stupid boy, but my pity is all used up.
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@ Hikari,
Of all the theories being expressed regarding the S's, this one has the most ring of truth to me. That is not to say other theories (such as substance abuse, for one) don't also have merit. I look at it this way -- ALL theories here contain a portion of truth in a situation that can only be discerned from the outside looking in. That's because I believe everyone here makes a conscious effort to make observations, reference past history and cut the wheat from the chaff with the help of others' observations.
I'm not sure about the gay/bi thing. I'm aware that homosexual behaviors are fairly endemic in British public (meaning private, for unaware readers) schools, and probably the armed forces as well -- without the participants necessarily being homosexual. It's a cultural thing. It's entirely as possible IMO that H falls into this category as actually being gay. But with an added, sinister streak of cruelty, as shown in his nipple-twisting photos and the rumors of bad treatment of prostitutes.
If he wasn't such a pathetic one-celled creature, I'd be afraid of him, were I in his social circle (such as it is anymore). I think his former girlfriends, especially Chelsy Davy and Cressida Bonas, should thank Heaven every day they chose to dodge the bullet.
The article about W's staff planting stories about 6's mental health really gets my goat:
In tonight’s ITV documentary, Harry & William: What Went Wrong?, Scobie – who has been an outspoken champion of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex – adds: ‘Meghan came in driven and ready to work and that immediately ruffled feathers. She’s a woman well into her 30s: I think she’s proven to herself and the people she’s worked with up until that point that she knows what she’s doing.
[Me: Umm, no. If she knew what she was doing, she would have done a few minutes' research into the RF and its traditions and protocols. Unless, of course, "knowing what she was doing" meant the active undermining of the RF itself.]
‘She was certainly not someone who was going to change herself just to please the people around her. I felt they also had to be reminded: “You’re not the stars of the show here. There is a hierarchy and you don’t come very high in it.”
[Me: Adhering to RF customs doesn't mean "changing oneself." Only M and other narcissists would see it that way.]
So TBW proved herself and knows what she's doing? I didn't see any evidence of it. As for not changing herself, how arrogant can you get? Did she thing the BRF had to change to accommodate her? Probably. [Me: Bingo.] There is a hierarchy and this is the problem, the witch thought she have equal billing with the Queen. Either he's making it up or the witch is even more delusional than we thought.
If he thinks this is going to backfire on William, he's got another thing coming. Wrong strategy.
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Yeah right.
"As for not changing herself, how arrogant can you get? Did she thing the BRF had to change to accommodate her? Probably."
Definitely. I am reminded that early on M would hug the palace guards. When told that really wasn't done, her reply was something like "I'm an American. I hug."
Leaving aside that that no American I know hugs strangers or hugs anyone at work except once in a blue moon, it's clear M thinks her ways of doing things are beyond reproach. And she seems to think even if they weren't, they can't be changed. After all, she was all of what then 36? No one ever changes after reaching his/her 30s (NOT!)
Even leaving aside that hugging may interfere with the guards' ability to do their jobs, she expected non-Americans in the UK to adopt her supposed American way of doing things. To heck with their personal space, to heck with their comfort at being touched while at work, to heck with what THEY had been raised to do and be comfortable with. To heck with it all. Meghan must rule. And while ruling over those kinds of behavior on the part of everyone she meets, she's fuming that when representing the monarchy TQ has the nerve to expect women to wear stockings, to wear hats on hat occasions, to not wear black nail polish, and to not wear overly revealing clothes? Who does QEII think she is! Clothing is much more an individual right to M it seems than allowing people to have autonomy over who touches their bodies. Quite odd. And not especially "American" IMO.
@Lt. Nyota Uhura wrote:
"As for not changing herself, how arrogant can you get? Did she thing the BRF had to change to accommodate her? Probably."
[Me: I was quoting @ Maneki Neko, sorry if it was unclear]
Definitely. I am reminded that early on M would hug the palace guards. When told that really wasn't done, her reply was something like "I'm an American. I hug."
[Me: Ohhh, the witch ... NOOOO, we hug our friends and relatives, NOT perfect strangers, and NOT random law enforcement!]
Leaving aside that that no American I know hugs strangers or hugs anyone at work except once in a blue moon, it's clear M thinks her ways of doing things are beyond reproach. And she seems to think even if they weren't, they can't be changed. After all, she was all of what then 36? No one ever changes after reaching his/her 30s (NOT!)
[Me: ^^ This.
Even leaving aside that hugging may interfere with the guards' ability to do their jobs, she expected non-Americans in the UK to adopt her supposed American way of doing things. To heck with their personal space, to heck with their comfort at being touched while at work, to heck with what THEY had been raised to do and be comfortable with. To heck with it all. Meghan must rule. And while ruling over those kinds of behavior on the part of everyone she meets, she's fuming that when representing the monarchy TQ has the nerve to expect women to wear stockings, to wear hats on hat occasions, to not wear black nail polish, and to not wear overly revealing clothes? Who does QEII think she is! Clothing is much more an individual right to M it seems than allowing people to have autonomy over who touches their bodies. Quite odd. And not especially "American" IMO.
^^ This times a thousand. THE ARROGANCE IS BREATHTAKING, JAW-DROPPING, AND TAKEN TO A WHOLE NEW DEPTH. (sorry for shouting)
No way
It's not how he sways
It's not how he bents
That's not how it went
With dear Chelsy Davy
Though with Cressida maybe
She drove him so nuts
Resorting to side sluts
H wuz so all in a tizzy
H went so awful dizzy
That little H went into
What strange H could
Glom onto
Now is all up for grabs
For gossip and gags
Even the Royal Shakespeare
From what I hear
Shall be staging a Play
All about Harry's ways
Montecito:
While their landlord indeed
Full of Russkie greed
He was in need
Of tenants to rent to
He found two Royal dementos
Searching for new sofa space
In a new place
They can call their own
To no longer roam
Hither and yon
For a sofa to crash on
So they took a chance
On his groovy mudslide Manse
The wife and her Ponce
Where they live happily ever after
Despite all UK laughter
From the plebs of those Isles
Now all full of smiles
With the duo so far away
Finis!
(With Haps still not gay)
For all the Scoobs deniers. Here he is commenting for the BBC at the unveiling. Ol' Scoobs is now very legit and listened to, or why would The Beeb have him on.
This all goes to show how M can sprinkle her magic fairy dust from 5,000 miles away, that it is still effective.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5M_j9XXIAA1EGg?format=jpg&name=small
Um, TBWs leaky pet Scobie snarks/claims the grey suits leaked PW was concerned for JH menatl health.
What older (previously very close) brother WOULDNT be concerned about their younger brothers 'mental health' after years of mental health issues and JH publicly blathering on about his 'mental health'?
Im not sure what the big reveal (scandal) is here?
Unless Scobie is implying mental health issues are something to be ashamed of and that totally goes against the mental health stigma fight.
not sure any of the H's apply to Scobie - not hot, not particularly hewed, and definitely not happening.
People revile him, and only Meghan and some woke person at the BBC can't see that.
The good ole BBC is anti-establishment and mostly anti-royal….and Woke. It used to be respected and actually reported truthful news…not anymore, it’s biased and opinion based. 🤨
Need I say more. 😳
This is just a reminder to have a look at
`The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News to Promote a Liberal Agenda' by Robert Aitken
From https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42891901-the-noble-liar
· 27 reviews
To some, it is the voice of the nation, yet to others it has never been clearer that the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it reporting fairly on the world. Many have been scandalised by its pessimism on Brexit and its one-sided presentation of the Trump presidency, whilst simultaneously amused by its outrage over 'fake news'.
Robin Aitken, who himself spent twenty-five years working for the BBC as a reporter and executive, argues that the Corporation needs to be reminded that what is 'fake' rather depends on where one is standing. From where his feet are planted, the BBC's own coverage of events often looks decidedly peculiar, peppered with distortions, omissions and amplifications tailored to its own liberal agenda.
This punchy polemic from the author of Can We Trust the BBC? galvanises the debate over how our licence-fee money is spent, and asks whether the BBC is a fair arbiter of the news, or whether it is a conduit for pervasive and institutional liberal left-wing bias.
It might be worth pointing out that the reviews suggest non-traditionalists don't seem to like it as much as traditionalists do.
Anyway, onto this statue. I'm probably in the minority but I don't like it. I don't hate it but I don't like it. I was hoping for Diana with her boys when they were younger. This just doesn't give me feels. Diana's face resembles Eddie Redmayne!! Not the Diana we know and love. Sigh. As for William and Harry, William was dignified and properly sober for the unveiling and looked like he was happy to see his aunts and uncle. Harry on the other hand... he looked scruffy. Couldn't he afford a haircut?!?! He's also got a bit of a paunch. And brown shoes? Really Harry? So disappointed in him and I know at this juncture he's past the point of no return. I wish him all the best. That's the nicest thing I can say about him now.
Happy Canada Day (belated) to all our Canadian Nutties and Happy 4th of July to all our USA Nutties 😁 Keep up the posts and the humourous jibes and the lovely poetry. 😁
Just seen some lovely photos of Lady Louis Windsor (in the express), she is turning into quite a beauty with an ethereal delicate face and a models figure and she has brains too.
Thanks for the heads up! Lady Louise does look very arresting in those new photos. I confess that I had found her an awkward-looking child, but she is clearly revealing that she has been a swan all this time! She may not be a conventional beauty, but she looks different from the usual faces and very interesting. I think we are going to see some really gorgeous photos for many years to come!
For P/S to pride itself on keeping it's VIP customers away from the Paparazzi they failed, the photos of Harry ended up in so many newspapers.
This seems like pointless, off-brand, counterintuitive merching, if that is what it is.
I think it's more likely that someone tipped off the press to make sure there would be photos of Harry (or a double), and now P/S looks as if they failed to do their job, when they actually fulfilled their end of the deal to the letter. And if this is the case, word is definitely going to get around about what kind of clients the Harkles are.
https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1410507224217161731
The BBC jokesters
Their wokesters
Dine off your fees
Remit if you please!
They know that
Scoobs the well Hewn
In paid perpetual swoon
For Megs that is
Now BBC's Whip smart Wiz
This up n comer shall not be denied
Memo to Nutties
Don't even try
I think Lady Louise is a very conventional beauty - she has what would be called "classic" features.
I'm not sure about the gay/bi thing...But with an added, sinister streak of cruelty, as shown in his nipple-twisting photos and the rumors of bad treatment of prostitutes.
Violence is a form of domination and control. IMO, you're more more likely to abuse someone you really need or you feel threatened by. It can occur in all relationships of course, but to me that tips the scales against Harry's being gay. He could get a beard from just about anywhere (i.e., if that was the only thing he desperately needed a woman for).
Lieutenant said:
I'm aware that homosexual behaviors are fairly endemic in British public (meaning private, for unaware readers) schools, and probably the armed forces as well -- without the participants necessarily being homosexual. It's a cultural thing. It's entirely as possible IMO that H falls into this category as actually being gay.
I think sometimes wealth in a man -- and a British accent -- can make an American, male or female, think "gay," when it's really just wealth: e.g., caring about his appearance deeply (something a wealthy man would teach his son), including manicures, pedicures, etc.; being very conscious of good manners, etc.
Also, might his `local therapist' have implanted a few false memories along with reinterpreting real ones?
Violence is a form of domination and control. IMO, you're more more likely to abuse someone you really need or you feel threatened by. It can occur in all relationships of course, but to me that tips the scales against Harry's being gay. He could get a beard from just about anywhere (i.e., if that was the only thing he desperately needed a woman for).
I agree with your assessment. Harry uses a more passive-aggressive approach than fisticuffs usually, but is nevertheless a violent personality, IMO. Especially when he's drunk. I don't get the feeling he's gay either. As the spare, he could easily have stayed a bachelor without anyone in the family really caring about it, if he were.
I think sometimes wealth in a man -- and a British accent -- can make an American, male or female, think "gay," when it's really just wealth: e.g., caring about his appearance deeply (something a wealthy man would teach his son), including manicures, pedicures, etc.; being very conscious of good manners, etc.
To an extent it's true that many Americans hear a British accent and automatically assume some kind of extra "refinement" that really isn't there (i.e. Cockney shopkeepers, Welsh miners, Yorkshire smallholders, etc., each with different accents that most Americans can't distinguish from each other). They are ordinary folk given extraordinary status simply because they're British. Tho many of the middle class do, as you say, give off the aura of attention to appearance that Americans normally associate with wealth.
Now, aristocrats, on the other hand, speaking of appearances, tend to dress kind of seedily, wearing what were once well-tailored clothes but which have been repaired many times over the years (the older ones) or those whose wardrobe is what might be called classically fashionable, but sparse, as in a lot of mix-and-match (the younger ones). One can tell the true aristos from "new money" a mile away, as new money tends to favor a wardrobe full of the latest, most expensive trendy fashions. (In fairness, there ARE aristos with money who can afford up-to-the-minute, but they are outnumbered by the ones who have had to scramble to keep their properties intact by opening bed-and-breakfasts, etc.) Many aristos may not have *money,* but they have what no money could buy (and which M will never have in her wildest imaginings -- breeding and class -- which include, as you say, good manners. It's in their DNA.
All of this meandering is to say that it's pretty easy for a Yank to call the appearance of *refinement* "gay," by comparison with our red-blooded, muscle-bound, hail-fellow-well-met types, and I totally agree with you in that respect. As for the RF, Prince Charles is the nattiest of dressers, and Prince William is always on point. H, on the other hand, always looks like he's slept in his (usually inappropriate) clothes, and what's with the 100s of gray T-shirts! LOL .... which may be a *thing* he got from aristo friends, that he's somehow translated into trying to be a *regular American guy*. I dunno.
Interesting food for thought, thanks :)
To an extent it's true that many Americans hear a British accent and automatically assume some kind of extra "refinement" that really isn't there
This reminds me of former child actress Mara Wilson tweeting that she was one of many American girls who made the mistake of thinking a British accent was a personality. My paraphrase, of course! But accents often do come with baggage -- sometimes to the advantage of the bearer and sometimes to his or her disadvantage.
Sometimes CDAN's fiction is better than its facts!
If Princess Latifa attempted to escape (to England?) when she was in her 30s, because she spent half her life in love with the now-married English royal who took her virginity when she was 15, well, it turns out that a controlling family may only be her second biggest problem!
I looked up "conventional" and see that you are right. I had understood the word to mean something closer to "standard," so when I say "conventional beauty," I mean someone who looks like a Hollywood star -- because the stars set the standard these days. Apparently, "conventional" means ordinary. In which case, yes, Lady Louise is closer to that! What I wanted to say was that she doesn't look like the beauties of showbiz, but still manages to be beautiful.
And I guess she does have "classic" features for an English girl, but since I come from a very different ethnic background, I have a hard time seeing it. I'll take your word for it!
A man who cares overly about his appearance can be deemed gay, but I think we can agree that Haz doesn’t care about his appearance in the least. When he was part of the RF, Granny supplied him with men to dress him and make sure he was appropriate to the occasion, but we now see the results of Haz being solely responsible for his own presentation and conduct.
Despite his overweening arrogance and entitlement, H is not confident in himself in the least. The way he generally carries himself, with many self-soothing tics and extremely effeminate hand gestures/worrying do not suggest a strong masculinity to me. His casual sexual harassment/assault upon the physical persons of young men not in a position to object gives me pause. His relationship with Chelsy was finished a decade ago. Lots of water under the bridge since. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn H is acquainted with b*ggery. I think he regards everyone regardless of gender as there to be used for his own gratification, as his right. That more than anything binds him and TW together. Mutual users, thoughtless and craven.
Whatever H’s sexual proclivities, I have an unshakable feeling that it was through some kind of sexual blackmail that TW and her coven shoved through the wedding. Whether boys, girls, bondage, drug orgies what have you—they both have filthy secrets they wanted to keep hidden.
This reminds me of former child actress Mara Wilson tweeting that she was one of many American girls who made the mistake of thinking a British accent was a personality. My paraphrase, of course! But accents often do come with baggage -- sometimes to the advantage of the bearer and sometimes to his or her disadvantage.
Indeed yes, same here in the States as in Britain. Many snobbish Americans think of everyone with a Southern accent as automatic racists (even tho Black Southerners have their own distinctive accent as well). I love all our accents, from New England to Baltimore to Wisconsin to Texas (as well as the "Spanglish" spoken in New Mexico). And you should hear the unique accent of those from Tangier Island, Virginia ("Tain-jer Ah-lin, Vuh-jun-yah")
Having been an Anglophile most of my life, I began recognizing different British accents fairly early on. To this day I know my Liverpudlian from my Brummie, Glasgow vs. Edinburgh, and the beautiful, lyrical valley Welsh from everyone else. Must admit, tho -- when I first watched "The Full Monty," I wish there had been subtitles a couple of times, LOL
Which leads me to M, who not only couldn't care less about the history and culture of the country she was marrying into (the national anthem disgrace comes to mind), but she is so far from appreciating something like regional accents she may as well be on the Moon. I've noticed she's tried to put on some kind of Home Counties/Received Pronunciation thing in her speech, which is not only insulting, but embarrassing and stupid. (Pretty good adjectives for her in general, come to think of it.)
//rant off :)
I have thought for a long time that he was being blackmailed. Harry seems to have no ‘checks and balances’ and I can well believe that even if he’s not gay, he would be an easy target for those with dubious motives. A very drunk, coked up prince with known issues and a reputation for pushing the boundaries would be up for anything whilst under the influence. No doubt his behavior in a certain club had been noted for some time. Didn’t Camilla also make a veiled reference to blackmail at one point?
The RF should have nipped this in the bud from the get go, I’m baffled as to why it’s been allowed to go on for so long.
Is she silent because the Kraken finally swallowed her whole?
Many snobbish Americans think of everyone with a Southern accent as automatic racists (even tho Black Southerners have their own distinctive accent as well).
One of my dearest friends was an American man who said: "Most Americans will hear a Southern accent and subtract ten IQ points." Someone else told me that many Southerners in media neutralize their accents for their jobs. I think that's a little sad. I remember watching The Golden Girls and being charmed by all the characters' accents -- but especially Blanche's.
Didn’t Camilla also make a veiled reference to blackmail at one point?
Interesting! I missed that. What did she say?
Hotness of Diana - the Christmas card where the blouse is unbuttoned does not show much but implies. The statue, otoh, is more definitive about how much can one see. And it clearly was not open or visible in the photos that it is supposed to refer back to. That open (able to see intimate apparel or not) is a HW/celeb modern in the last decade or so thing. Not so back then.
Quite interesting to read the comments after the event. Memories, propaganda piece and so on. Fascinating to hear different ideas/thoughts/comments. River does do Diana well (clapping).
In the end, it is their mother they are trying to portray and not my memories/thoughts.
The dog who didn't bark: interesting observation.
I thought the anatomy of the statue article would be about the problems of proportion - when enlarging the statue which could be part of the why it looks off, blocky and so on. Not every thing scales up to come out quite the way you thought it would (especially if you have other emotional things going on OR that you don't have quite the art eye to see how it will look when it is enlarged. And, sometimes what is so cute in a small scale model for approval does not always scale up to cute in the larger version.
Expectations of being able to apply American to the new role within the BRF. So would hugging the guards potentially be intimidation? Differences in status pressuring someone into accepting something they don't want?
I was looking at some of the photos of 6 when he was a kid. Maybe part of why he is so rigid about not allowing pictures of his kids was he really was uncomfortable being photographed as a kid? layer on about how everyone wanted his mother (on many levels) and he didn't want to share? Sure she took him/them places as a kid - think of the amusement park - forever memorialized with a photo taken when he wasn't looking.
- Wasn't it about the time of that the Harkles were about to flee our shores but stole the attention from C's speech about domestic abuse? ie March 2020? Was it really only just over a year ago?
"Most Americans will hear a Southern accent and subtract ten IQ points."
Umm, Southern Belle hear....IM OFFENDED!!! I was born in Arizona, but raised in the south. Every time I go back home to visit family, I get giggles from every establishment I visit. But they all (especially men) think its just cute. Needless to say, I've gotten a few freebies by playing the ultimate southern belle lost in the wild wild west.😜
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9755243/ITV-ditches-claim-Prince-Williams-staff-planting-stories-Harry-ITV-documentary.html
Dont worry.Either they are not well traveled or just jealous. Lol. Maybe both. It appears to me that the mods are ok with regional discrimination or maybe they aren't monitoring at the moment.
GWAH
I agree with you as well about Lady Louise.
"Most Americans will hear a Southern accent and subtract ten IQ points."
Umm, Southern Belle hear....IM OFFENDED!!! I was born in Arizona, but raised in the south. Every time I go back home to visit family, I get giggles from every establishment I visit. But they all (especially men) think its just cute. Needless to say, I've gotten a few freebies by playing the ultimate southern belle lost in the wild wild west.😜
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Well, maybe. Or maybe not. I think of those as highly judgemental though. Snobby works too. Personally, I think most Americans don't really care. They are too worried about what is happening their personal life to do much more than notice - oh look. That person doesn't sound like they grew up around here. And then, they move on.
Southerner here. Besides, if someone is that judgemental about being able to look down on someone just on how they speak, well then, bless their heart which isn't always exactly a compliment as they are about to be surprised when their expectations fail. Cheesy grits anyone?
https://harrymarkle.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/harry-unmasked-at-the-wellchild-awards/
A new one at this long timer blog. Where she contrasts the English football team to the BRF. As far as executing duty to country
HM Blog Excerpt---
You can’t have escaped the football fever that has dominated the news over the last few weeks, yet there are many parallels we can observe from the Euro 2020 tournament and the Sussex Fiasco. In short, what we have seen is the impressive camaraderie of the teams, the respect that the teams have for their supporters, and the loyalty that the people have for their country when supporting their national team. These are traits that the Sussexes and their cult followers lack, as we have watched teams proudly representing their countries.
Re. the William and Harry documentary. I’ve recorded it and will probably watch it tomorrow. I can’t help thinking it’s a rehash of a slightly older documentary already shown, as a lot of them are. 🥴
Southerner here. Besides, if someone is that judgemental about being able to look down on someone just on how they speak, well then, bless their heart which isn't always exactly a compliment as they are about to be surprised when their expectations fail. Cheesy grits anyone?
Can I get some biscuits and gravy with a side of sweet tea with that please?? You said it perfectly "bless their hearts".
Would you also like some Chess Pie with that?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/03/us/cdc-diarrhea-swim-warning-trnd/index.html
He's said a couple of things:
Netflix is the company threatening to sue the Sussexes ("false pretenses").
H&M still don't have Lili; the mother is holding out for more money. But, because of U.S. law, she'll ultimately be forced to turn the baby over.
"Lili" is actually "Diana Mary," and she was born in L.A., not Santa Barbara. (All the celebs use Cedars-Sinai.)
They never got Archie from the surrogate because she ultimately decided not to give the baby to them. (Also why Harry doesn't know that 3-week-olds don't just "sit there.")
Scobie has been in on the con from the start. Markus is openly bi, and MM, Markus, and Scobie used to have threesomes. That's the blackmail they have on Harry.
His guess was that Harry is still taking coke, and at the memorial, he was on coke, antidepressants, and booze.
He thinks PH brought the coke with him into the UK and that Doria is his and Meghan's dealer.
If you go to the article on Harry's planned return to the U.K., you might be able to find Bigf00t's most recent comments.
He's said a couple of things:
Netflix is the company threatening to sue the Sussexes ("false pretenses").
H&M still don't have Lili; the mother is holding out for more money. But, because of U.S. law, she'll ultimately be forced to turn the baby over.
"Lili" is actually "Diana Mary," and she was born in L.A., not Santa Barbara. (All the celebs use Cedars-Sinai.)
They never got Archie from the surrogate because she ultimately decided not to give the baby to them. (Also why Harry doesn't know that 3-week-olds don't just "sit there.")
Scobie has been in on the con from the start. Markus is openly bi, and MM, Markus, and Scobie used to have threesomes. That's the blackmail they have on Harry.
His guess was that Harry is still taking coke, and at the memorial, he was on coke, antidepressants, and booze.
He thinks PH brought the coke with him into the UK and that Doria is his and Meghan's dealer.
If you go to the article on Harry's planned return to the U.K., you might be able to find Bigf00t's most recent comments.
#6 was probably in on those group sex events.
IMO Haz was angry, not at the child who wanted a photo of the new baby, but angry because something had gone really amiss with that. Everything in that comment sounds very plausible.
I don't think the RF stepped in to stop haz because of Margaret's marriage disappointments, and Charles failed marriage. The Queen decided to step away from regulating other's relationships because she saw the heartache that occurred. There's noting like making massive mistakes to force a person to grow up, i.e., haz.
My father’s family came from the Black Country just outside B’ham itself – it’s not a racial term but I wonder how long it’ll be before we have to say `Absolutely Filthy Dirty Country’?
Thanks. Both sets of comments fit my thinking.
`Omid Scobie is BAZAAR.com’s Royal Editor at Large and has covered the lives and philanthropic work of the younger members of the British Royal Family for over eight years. As well as spearheading exclusive coverage of major royal milestones (including the weddings of both the Cambridges and Sussexes), Scobie has traveled extensively with Harry, Meghan, William and Kate on their engagements in the U.K. and around the world.'
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/author/219187/omid-scobie/
(My emphasis)
Perhaps I would have done had I lowered myself to read their online crap such as this, from 10 March this year:
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a35783710/meghan-markle-prince-harry-interview-essay/
He deserves to be taken to court for every penny he's got for that one, although the heading `Stifling, Toxic and Racist — Duchess Meghan Never Had a Chance at The Palace' is a perfect description of #6w...
Andrew Pierce (Daily Mail) posted this on Twitter yesterday...
Only days after #DianaStatue was unveiled new US TV documentary by #HarryandMeghan chums spreads more smears about Prince William. Yet more evidence they want to damage the Royal Family but its their popularity which is plummeting,
Jennifer Chuang replied with...
It’s like the article in the DM. It isn’t coincidence another channel Bradbury is part of just happened to have DoC story ready 4 viewing now? IMMEDIATELY after H's visit? Ready w pre-canned quote & 'whataboutisms' ready to broadcast? Who do u think set it up..not the palace.
https://twitter.com/JrMamaChuang/status/1411700780516655111
I don't think it had actually registered with me that OS is formally employed by Harper's Bazaar [...]
Perhaps I would have done had I lowered myself to read their online crap such as this, from 10 March this year:
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a35783710/meghan-markle-prince-harry-interview-essay/
He deserves to be taken to court for every penny he's got for that one, although the heading `Stifling, Toxic and Racist — Duchess Meghan Never Had a Chance at The Palace' is a perfect description of #6w...
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IMO, he has deserved RF lawsuits each and every time he opens his weaselly mouth about them. This last time, with the "William planted stories about H's mental health" nonsense, I'm willing to bet a quiet word was had by the Palace that clearly threatened ITV and/or Scobie with some kind of legal retribution. I hope so, anyway. It's past time that the RF plays hardball with the S's.
Maybe more important, IMO, is the fact that hardly anyone reads the publications Scobie writes for. He only ever gets real oxygen from the Daily Mail, who lives on its clickbait, the more outrageous the better. His looks don't help any, either. He is a laughingstock, a true jester in the S's ever-shrinking "court."
Do any of our American friends know anything about this US TV documentary?
@ Miggy, if you mean this one -- https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1436482/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-Netflix-documentary-Royal-Family-latest-news-vn --
... the answer is A) No and B) Don't want to know. The feeling here in the U.S. (aside from the tiny number of noisy sycophants that seem to get all the attention) is the S's are getting increasingly desperate. "Tell-all," "behind-the-scenes" stuff about the RF has been around for so many decades that nothing they could say, short of W and C are axe murderers, will matter at all. One only has to look at the U.S. commenters at DM and the other tabloids (and social media in general) to see this. The consensus increasingly is GO AWAY, ALREADY.
My guess: Netflix/Spotify are getting quite impatient with the lack of output from the two. By now they really should be ready to give them up as a bad investment.
Thanks for the DE link. I have no idea if that's the documentary in question but from the Andrew Pierce tweet, I get the impression that the documentary has already aired?
Just had a thought however? @Puds body double Harry, could this be the same as when Rob Lowe said that Harry had a pony tail? Was he eluding to something?!
Again, just wanted to thank you ladies for always putting a smile on my face and I definitely read this blog as a guilty pleasure/comfort!
Apologies as it seems I got it wrong -- yes, supposedly the ITV documentary "Harry and William: What Went Wrong?" aired last night at 9 p.m. (British time).
I did a duckduckgo search (will NOT! use G00gle) and found that there appears to be very little (if any) buzz about the program. If we in the U.S. are beyond tired of the gruesome twosome, the U.K. is falling asleep at the mere mention of their names!
I watched small snippets of the ITV documentary, (that's all that I could stomach) but I still feel that Andrew is saying that there was one produced especially for the US.
I could be wrong of course!
Will have a look around and see if I can find any clues.:)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9756589/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-hire-new-Head-Audio-produce-Archewell-podcast.html
@Lt,
I watched small snippets of the ITV documentary, (that's all that I could stomach) but I still feel that Andrew is saying that there was one produced especially for the US.
I could be wrong of course!
Will have a look around and see if I can find any clues.:)
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Hahaha, if, in spite of diligent searching, I, as an American, can't find a single trace of the S's U.S. "documentary," that's pretty sad! Yes, please do share if you find something :)
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July 5, 2021 at 2:13 PM
Blogger Miggy said...
The Sussexes have hired a new Head of Audio to produce their Archewell podcast.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9756589/Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-hire-new-Head-Audio-produce-Archewell-podcast.html
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Yes, one Rebecca Sananes. (I read "bananas" when I first saw it, LOL)
As usual, the DM comments on this are telling:
Best rated:
Mac6, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 1 hour ago
There is nothing these two can say that I would want to listen to. They have nothing new to say.
Replies:
Revolution2021, Lost, United Kingdom, 46 minutes ago
Exactly. No one wants to listen to these 2 pair of twits.
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LEC, Dublin, Ireland, 18 minutes ago
Agreed. But I think we should all say good luck to Rebecca. She's going to need it.
(emphasis mine)
How long do you think it will be before the S's send Rebecca out for takeaway? 😈
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Article states that they don't get the 18 million pounds until they produce the required content. Thus far their output is practically nonexistent. And whatever they DO produce in the future will go over like a lead balloon.
@Elsbeth1847
@Lt Nyota Uhura
@SirStinxAlot
It seems that I opened a can of worms without knowing! My friend who said that about Southern accents didn't mean anything against Southern people. If anything, he was always very sympathetic towards the South. (I'd describe his views further, but that may open Pandora's box this time.) He was describing a kind of discrimination that he had observed but did not himself practice. If I gave offense by sharing that without context, I apologize.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9753207/Prince-Charles-promotes-senior-black-aide-lead-efforts-improve-diversity.html
Read the whole thing -- this lady is definitely NO "token."
It's interesting that it looks as if we may have gone round in a circle, right back to March 2018 when Harry Markles's 3 posts implied that there was á plot by DR,MM,ME and possibly JM to target #6. Now substitute OS for JM?
Also, Harper's is part of the Hearst corporation - cast an eye over HC's list of magazine titles from Wikipedia:
Autoweek
Bicycling
Billboard (magazine)
Car and Driver
Cosmopolitan
Country Living
Dr. Oz THE GOOD LIFE
ELLE (US and UK)
Elle Decor
Esquire
Food Network Magazine
Good Housekeeping
Harper's Bazaar
HGTV Magazine
The Hollywood Reporter
House Beautiful
Marie Claire
Men's Health
Nat Mags
O, The Oprah Magazine
Popular Mechanics
Prevention
Red
Redbook
Road & Track
Rodale's Organic Life
Runner's World
Seventeen
Town & Country
Veranda
Woman's Day
Women's Health
Remarkable, isn't it, how many of these regularly publish pro MM articles? Though I'm less sure about Women's Day, now that Daniela seems to have revised her view somewhat.
BTW, who can recall the Patty Hearst Kidnapping? the Symbionese Liberation Army? and of course, Stockholm Syndrome (wi'.ref. to Patty)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201203/what-underlies-stockholm-syndrome#:~:text=Another%20notorious%20case%20of%20Stockholm%20Syndrome%
Am I hearing echoes of these events from almost 50 years ago?
I don't think the RF stepped in to stop haz because of Margaret's marriage disappointments, and Charles failed marriage. The Queen decided to step away from regulating other's relationships because she saw the heartache that occurred.
I agree with this assessment of the Queen's thinking on Harry's choice of bride, though her decision here has probably had the worst repercussions of all three. This was probably the one time she should have put her foot down.
Having said that, it's easy to look back and feel compassion for a young Princess Margaret and a young Prince Charles. But what do those with longer memories think? Would a marriage to Group Captain Peter Townsend and the ensuing loss of Margaret's royal privileges and income have worked out in the long run? She might have ended up so desperate for money that she, and not Wallis, would be reminding us of Harry's wife today. And would waffling Charles, given the freedom to marry Camilla, have "put a ring on it" before Andrew Parker-Bowles did?
@Portcitylass
@Elsbeth1847
@Lt Nyota Uhura
@SirStinxAlot
It seems that I opened a can of worms without knowing! My friend who said that about Southern accents didn't mean anything against Southern people. If anything, he was always very sympathetic towards the South. (I'd describe his views further, but that may open Pandora's box this time.) He was describing a kind of discrimination that he had observed but did not himself practice. If I gave offense by sharing that without context, I apologize.
No need to apologize, I knew what your friend meant :) Can't speak for others, but I don't think anyone else took offense.
IMO, our "intellectual betters" on the two coasts have proven themselves the opposite every time they slag Southerners off as a "bunch of rednecks." How, then, do they explain Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Shelby Foote (my personal icon) and Dr. Martin Luther King (for Pete's sake!) among so many others?
I could listen to the various Southern accents and insights all day long. So musical, so full of keen observation into the human condition, no matter how humble nor exalted their situation in life. (So many Southerners have mommas and grannies etc. who have passed down so many rich metaphors!)
Pardon my language, but F the so-called "elites." THEY are the "trash" they so disdainfully call Southerners.
Here is a great article in psychology today about how narcissists employ smear campaigns effectively.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/tech-support/201906/dealing-the-narcissists-smear-campaign
As if tarnishing the reputation of the 2 future kings will somehow get H$M a coronation.
And while the Harkles can only make stuff up and hope it's believed, we have actual evidence of their proposed "rightful" future king wearing a swastika, partying naked with hookers, and using a racial slur.
For a while, I had been thinking that she just wanted to drag them down for the sake of dragging them down. That she still has her original goal in mind, and seems to think it's at all achievable, has me floored!
Thank you for your illuminating article share -- https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/tech-support/201906/dealing-the-narcissists-smear-campaign
It's so glaringly, blindingly obvious that H and M are, in fact, conducting a smear campaign the likes of which would have stricken their heads off not so long ago. And each day it gets more obvious how narcissist they truly are.
I don't get that anyone believes them, much less supports them. My guess, tho, is that since control is the be-all-and-end-all to types like that, and that there are so many of them in positions of power and influence -- coupled with the fact that most other people, being at least somewhat empathic, either refuse to believe or don't want to believe what they're actually seeing -- they keep getting away with it. Empathic people hate confrontation -- and they tend to see the best in people -- narcissists learn this in toddlerhood, and use the empathic people in their power quest shamelessly and deliberately all their lives. (Especially the malignant ones, like M.)
Well, the RF is beginning to see the light at last, IMO. Your article's No. 1 suggestion -- Don't engage at all -- is the best advice there is. I know the RF doesn't want to shut H out completely, but I don't see any other way around things, if he continues his destructive behavior.
The Sussexes made a big mistake failing to follow through in their first year. People have had time to get tired of them in the US, so even if they did come up with something now, people have moved on.
They can't use the pandemic as an excuse either. Others have shown energy and imagination and come up with content. Especially small productions like theirs would be. I really enjoyed the TV series 'Staged' with David Tennant and Michael Sheen doing Zoom sessions with each other through lockdown. At one point Judi Dench dropped in without warning and told them off for misbehaving and being lazy! And then there's Catherine's wonderful book of photos about the pandemic. A genuine bestseller. Both Cambridges took time to regularly talk to people in frontline services and, more to the point, they listened.
The Sussexes could have done something about people H had got to know through Invictus, how their lives were going during lockdown. If Edward Lane Fox was still around he'd have worked wonders in the last year. Of course the roadblock for all of this was H's wife. Who can't listen. Can't share the spotlight. Can't collaborate. Has no originality. No skills. No empathy. Is totally tone-deaf and the worst possible person you could have in a pandemic.
Basically, she thought people would pay good money just because they're royal. We don't actually pay that much per head for our royals and they follow their annual schedules shaking hands and unveiling things and it's all very safe and predictable. We like it that way. M comes along and wants tens of millions to keep for herself for doing the same thing. As a business model it falls at the first hurdle. No one's that interested and she's hopeless at being royal anyway.
Perhaps *somebody* realized that *nobody* is going to be watching their drivel in the US over the 4th of July weekend?
I'm with you on Google. I noticed that several research papers that I had previously accessed were no longer available and websites were being censored. I switched to other search engines and this was YEARS ago. I bounced from one to another and have been on DuckDuckGo for maybe three years now.
I saw the headline re the podcast just before reading your posts. Let's not forget that the 6s 'have hired a Head of Audio to produce their Archewell podcast - after giving Spotify just 35 minutes of content so far for their £18million deal.' (my emphasis). You read correctly, 35 minutes for a £18million deal. How can these companies be so gullible? As for Netflix, what have they produced? They can't possibly carry on like this.
Spotify would have been better served throwing some of that money at the people producing the content that others want to see.
Lt. Nyota Uhuru said: I did a duckduckgo search (will NOT! use G00gle) and found that there appears to be very little (if any) buzz about the program. If we in the U.S. are beyond tired of the gruesome twosome, the U.K. is falling asleep at the mere mention of their names!
Perhaps *somebody* realized that *nobody* is going to be watching their drivel in the US over the 4th of July weekend?
Hahaha, all that expensive PR, and what a blunder 😈
I'm with you on Google. I noticed that several research papers that I had previously accessed were no longer available and websites were being censored. I switched to other search engines and this was YEARS ago. I bounced from one to another and have been on DuckDuckGo for maybe three years now.
Same -- duckduckgo doesn't track people, nor sell their data like G00gle does.
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July 5, 2021 at 4:23 PM
Blogger Maneki Neko said...
@Miggy and @Lt Uhura
I saw the headline re the podcast just before reading your posts. Let's not forget that the 6s 'have hired a Head of Audio to produce their Archewell podcast - after giving Spotify just 35 minutes of content so far for their £18million deal.' (my emphasis). You read correctly, 35 minutes for a £18million deal. How can these companies be so gullible? As for Netflix, what have they produced? They can't possibly carry on like this.
(emphasis mine)
Both Netflix and Spotify are pay-to-play -- no product, no 18 million (or however much). Not only that, but the product has to have a good chance of viewer/listenership. The S's are failing on both counts.
Short answer -- They CAN'T, and WON'T carry on like this. If you ask me, they're teetering on the brink of being skint (love that British expression). They don't seem to be desperate enough to actually cough up the product they must. As others have said, M is incapable of not only coming up with good product herself, but refuses to listen to those who are. She keeps going through people like this Rebecca hoping someone will magically marry up her vision with actual success. Ain't gonna happen ... and, as the saying goes, I'm here for it😈
Re: Jubilee, numerous people have commented that the Queen invited the Sussexs to her Jubilee next year. Which the Sussexs will only attend if they get to stand on the balcony. I suspect there is an entire list of demands. Like wearing the tiara of M choice, royal jewelry, clothing reimbursement no matter the cost, car transport of their choice, police motorcade escort everywhere, staying in which ever castle guest room they want- or just gift them the castle, massive security team, Kate & William publicly curtsey to H$M, public apology from all, 747 private jet, retract any bullying investigation, FIRE any staff that participated in the bullying investigation, leave everything in HMTQ will to H$M (her favorite grandchildren), remove Charles, William and family from line of succession, open up unlimited funds for H$M use, cake with no egg in it- or just fire the incompetent cooks, a 50+PR team in UK and 50+ PR team in USA to repair the Sussexs reputation, public apology from every UK news medias for the honest but negative footage and commentary they published, Piers Morgan must be locked in the tower awaiting public beheading....Im sure we can think of a few more.
They want the Throne itself! (Plus a peerage for Scooby Doo!)
I usually want to be a fly on the wall at Amner Hall, but this time I'd like to be in the office of whatever Spotify exec has had to deal with her for the last six months. I'm sure she has some amazing excuses for why can't produce any content. She or the poor staff member she eventually sent to do those Zoom meetings for her.
Can we rely on her dumping him, even when it's apparent that no man will touch her, even with a barge pole?
July 5, 2021 at 5:23 PM
There were photos of HMTQ allegedly heading to Frogcott just 30mns after H arrived. River did a video on it. Saying HMTQ wants to smooth things over with H over tea. Nothing was ever confirmed by the palace, but the following day an article saying HMTQ and Charles were unable to meet with H due to schedule clashes. They were both in Scotland for Holyrood week.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SorCSKfmWUE
*I'm not speaking of Her Majesty's advanced age; I have a bad feeling that there are Very Bad Things on the way and *nobody* here trusts the media to report on them or the Federal government and its myriad bureaucracies to handle them.
You read correctly, 35 minutes for a £18million deal. How can these companies be so gullible? As for Netflix, what have they produced? They can't possibly carry on like this.
And I'm sure they won't. Word gets around. After Netflix and Spotify got so badly burned -- and public evidence of the Sussexes' failure to produce anything is available to all and sundry -- I can't see anyone willing to do business with her any longer. This is why I don't think P/S let Harry merch their security services by getting papped with the van logo. I believe it's more likely that he (or his wife) tipped off the paps and that P/S are now upset at how this has harmed their brand.
I could be wrong, of course. Perhaps P/S had been (unwisely) wanting this kind of publicity for some time and only the Harkles were willing to go along with it. I hope they don't get Markled too badly for this foolishness.
Re: Jubilee, numerous people have commented that the Queen invited the Sussexs to her Jubilee next year.
If this is the best they can do, they're really out in the cold! Harry's wife usually does those vision board press leaks a very short time before the desired event is to happen. She was already "pregnant" when she wanted to force Catherine to host a baby shower for her. It was a month before her birthday when she wanted the Queen to bake her a cake at Balmoral. She had just got back from Morocco when she wanted the Queen to write her a personal thank-you letter for her "stamina" during the tour. (Oh, wouldn't she have loved to leak that to People Magazine!) Even the "Christmas soirée" with Harry's surrogate father David Foster and Katharine McPhee was hinted at in October.
If she can only project seven months into the future these days, completely skipping over her birthday in less than a month, then she's got nothing.
@Snarkyatherbest
my guess is divorce or someone is “heavily pregnant” again so of course she can’t be there.
And my guess is another miscarriage. "As I held my third child in my arms and gazed across the room at my first -- both innocents who never met their sibling, my second -- I knew I was losing my fourth."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/07/04/harry-william-went-wrong-laid-blame-firmly-brothers/
The TV programme is on YouTube. Here is the link (not sure it works outside the UK), should some of our non UK Nutties be interested: https://youtu.be/HaqTQ8fTuTk
heck the queen was at the royal Windsor horse show when haz was still in town and no word on them ever meeting. he left a day after the queen was seen in Windsor.
Brilliant! When Hazz blows into town, they make sure to be out of town. Queen and Charles that is. It sure looks like H is being shunned. He travels 5000 miles, quarantines for five days, Hazz gets nothing, no real talk from the Royals. Who will want to talk to the leaker anyway? Not about anything important.
Best of all, H/M got zero publicity out all these Diana days. Though Hazz was relived to be away from M for a while. He took a vacation from being in her clutches. A mental health holiday
Blogger SwampWoman said...
I doubt very much that The Queen invited 6 and TBW to her Jubilee this far in advance because: (a) There may not *be* a Jubilee* next year, and (b) The Dud Duo may go on record trashing even more of the RF, their employees, the British people, the American people, etc. etc. Best to not extend invitations if they will have to be later rescinded.
They want it now because they can merch it all year long. They know HMTQ and the palace will not rescind the invitation. The Disastrous Duo can continue smearing the RF. Merching the titles. M may try to line up several designers to make custom dresses for her only to pull an Amal Clooney and wear something else. They can also continue to make demands of the palace staff such as being placed along side HMTQ on the balcony alone or up front with William and Catherine in the back. What jewelry, cars, security, additional guests
(Like Mulroneys, Netflix/Spotify execs, Gayle,or Oprah) etc they want to attendas well. Every rejected request would be leaked to the media, strengthening their victim narrative. The palace would be swamped with another year of smears and rebuttals to look forward to. It would create a toxic work environment, induce by H$M bullying from mudslide manor. The stress on staff trying to cope with inevitably seeing TBW again and her enabler handbag.
The H$Ms are just running the idea up the flagpole/floating the idea. I haven't seen anyone salute or swallow the bait.
She'll try it on, in hope of turning up like the Bad Fairy.
Why give that little t*rd Scobie the chance of having a field day or 3 about it?
Lt. N. Uhura - ...but refuses to listen to those who are. She keeps going through people like this Rebecca hoping someone will magically marry up her vision with actual success.
And take full credit for it to boot if it worked.
I seriously question it too that they would be known to be invited (so early) as well. I would, however, think it would be a great long term play if it were known that they would not be invited so early - they could make book on it as victims yet again. Another special?
@Snarkyatherbest
my guess is divorce or someone is “heavily pregnant” again so of course she can’t be there.
She would show up anyways. Remember Inskips wedding where she showed up even after the break up. She would show up to prove shes 'still royal' even after a divorce and invitations rescinded. I could hear her now, "my secretary never told me, I was really looking forward to collaborating with the RF"...she played that after a psycho rant over a photoshoot cancelling. I believe she was the alleged "secretary " in that incident. Not to mention, the revolving door of staff she has. It would be plausible her event calendar wasn't updated. "Its so hard to find good help these days."-M
Remember, Lady C (who knows about These Sort of Things) has said it's far too early for any invitations to any royal event of any description.
The H$Ms are just running the idea up the flagpole/floating the idea. I haven't seen anyone salute or swallow the bait.
Lady C said Royal invitations go out 6 weeks before the event. This must be case #16 or so where Megs/SS connive to get a Royal invitation by announcing (placing) that they already have an invitation. To Balmoral, Sandringham and so on. That Doria will be coming too for Christmas, that a special cake is being baked for M. ----- P A T H E T I C ! --- Though I see her dim sugars buying into these placements.
These placements also being put out to make the Dastardlies look Royal adjacent. When (lol) no Royal wants to talk to them. Megs especially. The Dastardlies have been ghosted. The D&D of Montecito are running on fumes. Even with Covid lifting in California, their projected billion dollar showbiz and merching careers are dead in the water. They gypped Spotify and Netflix on their advances, word of this has gone around town in Hollywood.
I never thought that Spotty and NetFlix gave them large advances. Though a podcast is easy to put together, the Dastardlies only gave Spotty one. The Klepto-Duo could not be bothered to do more. This was too much of a "hassle".
Pro Sussex’s we had Scabies, Katie Nicol, Lacey and Emma Jones a board member of Hacked Off (a privacy campaign group who now basically want to shut down freedom of the press) and other people all bringing up the so called racism Maggot received, plus how successful their Australian tour was and what a missed opportunity it was letting the Sussex’s go. 🙄On the pro royal family all we had was Camilla Tominey and Penny Juror.
I could write loads, and all I want to do is rant about it, but I’m not wasting my time. 🤨These programmes are bad for ones health. Don’t waste your time on it unless you have a box full of shoes ready to throw at the telly. 🥺🤨😖
"Harry had spoken with journalist Tom Bradby in 2019 where he admitted to a rift with his brother for the first time. And Mr Scobie has now said a negative spin was subsequently put on that interview by palace sources. The claims were due to be aired in ITV's prime-time documentary 'Harry and William: What Went Wrong?' which was broadcast last night. But at the 11th hour the claim was cut from the show. Kensington Palace is believed to have contacted the producers in relation to a 'number' of details. One of these was a clear rebuttal of Mr Scobie's suggestion that William had expressed a 'concern' about his brother's mental health, which the author had no evidence to support" (DM)
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Harry must have some cognitive impairment.” I remember his final exam at Eton where former teachers of Prince Harry at Eton College helped him cheat in his A-level art course because he was such a weak student. A teacher accused The head of art at Eton of having completed work for Harry which was later published in newspapers. around the world.
"Prince Harry, a weak student who was helped to cheat in exam, says ex-teacher (This article is more than 16 y.)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/may/10/schools.alevels2004
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Well, if I had any doubts that this information might or might not be true, it dissipated completely in Harry's dialogue with the fake Greta Thunberg. Yes, Chunga Changa Island exists and its lands are lodged in Harry's brain and surrounded by water inside his head.
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LT N. Uhura said ..
"They want the Throne itself! (Plus a peerage for Scooby Doo!)"
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My guess: Harry and MM should go to Chunga Changa Island.There, they would be King and Queen of Bananas and Scooby Doo: The hound of the baskervilles. And to wave from the balcony to his subjects. And MM writes another book plagiarizing the song.
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"Wonder island
Wonder island
Living on it is easy and effortless
Living on it is easy and effortless
Chunga-Changa
Our happiness is constant
Chew coconuts eat bananas
Chew coconuts eat bananas
Chunga-Changa"
https://youtu.be/_7hXYEyUUI4
I doubt very much that The Queen invited 6 and TBW to her Jubilee this far in advance because: (a) There may not *be* a Jubilee* next year, and (b) The Dud Duo may go on record trashing even more of the RF, their employees, the British people, the American people, etc. etc. Best to not extend invitations if they will have to be later rescinded.
Good points. I would also add that their reception would be, shall we say, beyond chilly. Should The Queen (or Prince Charles) cave and allow them on the balcony, there will be Hell to pay from the British public.
Frankly, I think it's their usual *manifesting* going on. They've seen the buzz about will they-won't they go to the Jubilee, and they're trying to get ahead of it. They're trying to box The Queen into another corner again to *force* her to invite them. Loathsome, vile pair ... but people are waking up. They have seen that all the ammunition in their arsenal has been shot, and they're having to go further and further afield (an entire year)for potential smear items.
And yes, there is plenty of time between now and then for them to keep on shooting themselves in the foot. Which I've no doubt they'll do. They're desperate, and getting more so. IMO.
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@ Karla,
Hahaha! That Chunga-Changa video! Talk about un-PC, and perfectly apt, LOL -- nice one 😈
You said: My guess: Harry and MM should go to Chunga Changa Island.There, they would be King and Queen of Bananas and Scooby Doo: The hound of the baskervilles. And to wave from the balcony to his subjects. And MM writes another book plagiarizing the song [Wonder Island].
I would just change one thing: "Harry and MM LIVE ETERNALLY ON Chunga-Changa Island." Their own sunny little coked-up (or Adderall-ed up) world, where they can throw tantrums with rocks and Molotov cocktails (and hot beverages) at Mean Old Granny and Daddy and the Mean Old World Because They Made Them Feel Bad. Pay no attention to the truth wolves prowling closer and closer, just behind the curtain! We're never wrong! You'll see!
Their problem? So many lies, so much backlash to counterract, with which they can't possibly keep up. Latest example, staff bullying -- M knows she's guilty as Hell, but never thinks that in the moment. Instead, she's playing pre-emptive defense ("They weren't up to the job" -- as if people are going to believe that). H plays the class clown at the statue unveiling, thinking, "Well, if they want the Good Old H of yore, here he is!", not bothering to *read the room* to see how ghastly and inappropriate his capers were.
They just ... don't ... think ... beyond ... the ... next ... five ... minutes.
The H&Ms should be banished there forthwith.
As for the source of the brothers' dispute now being attributed to W's smears, didn't #6 tell us that the real reason was W expressing his doubts about the liaison at the start?
I used to tell my students that if they told habitual untruths they'd better be certain that they had good memories.
Yes. Everything I have ever read about the genesis of the dispute is that W expresses doubt about 6w and advised 6 to take it slow and not be in such a hurry.
Re: the brothers' dispute stemming from Prince William's doubts at the start
I recall that the line "Take as much time as you need to get to know this girl" being spun as evidence of both racism and sexism. Why? Because Prince William referred to Harry's then-fiancée, a successful, accomplished, whip-smart career woman in her own right, as "this girl." And that spin on the quote got them a good distance before they finally decided to retire it.
Given what has happened since the wedding, however, I doubt the Sussexes want to remind anyone of that. It makes Prince William look like a wise sage and paragon of prudence. So now we have the smears. But given that Harry has been playing a mental patient on TV for the last few months (including the appearance at the statue unveiling), I imagine people will soon be thinking that William was right to be worried. A second way it could backfire is that we now have a paper trail for when Harry's "symptoms" started to make themselves evident.
Doesn't anyone at Montecito wargame these things?
Brilliant comments.
Then, there was also PP's caution, "One steps out with showgirls, one does not marry them." I am sure 6 did not appreciate that comment, either, which probably lead to even more fury about the family's response to his choice of future wife.
As an aside, I object to references to 6w as a Suits "star." She was part of the ensemble cast and played the love interest of one of the true stars. Not a major player in the series. Like most everything else on her CV, the "star" label is exaggerated.
I thought PW was being remarkably generous considering that "that girl" was older than he was and probably far above PH's mental age.
@WBBM and @DesignDoctor
Re: the brothers' dispute stemming from Prince William's doubts at the start
I recall that the line "Take as much time as you need to get to know this girl" being spun as evidence of both racism and sexism. Why? Because Prince William referred to Harry's then-fiancée, a successful, accomplished, whip-smart career woman in her own right, as "this girl."
Would H rather that Prince William called her a "haggard old crone" ?!
... I imagine people will soon be thinking that William was right to be worried. A second way it could backfire is that we now have a paper trail for when Harry's "symptoms" started to make themselves evident.
H himself has been blabbing about his own mental problems for years! 🙄
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Blogger SwampWoman said...
@Enbrethiliel war gaming is far to harsh a concept for the kind, considerate, and loving people that inhabit Montecito. They're probably out riding unicorns and granting wishes at this very moment.
Not to mention "inclusive and compassionate," and "shining a light" and stuff 😎 ... but don't worry, little Alfie, er, Archie will wargame the whole thing as soon as he's done solving the end of pi 😜
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Blogger DesignDoctor said...
@WBBM
Yes. Everything I have ever read about the genesis of the dispute is that W expresses doubt about 6w and advised 6 to take it slow and not be in such a hurry.
And the stans have not been able to make anything else stick, no matter how hard they've tried.
Personally, I think the RF should make a rule that no one should be allowed to get married until they've dated for at least 2 to 3 years. Might have worked in the S's case, might not ... but it would have given them a better shot, whether they broke up or stayed together. JMO.
I met my husband in December 1984, started dating him in April 1985, got engaged in June 1985 (two months later) and we got married in August 1986. We will be married 35 years this August.
My neighbor's daughter dated her boyfriend for 7 years. The marriage lasted 9 months.
It can go either way.
My mother was married 5x. She needed financial stability from a second income. My daughters teacher married 3x in less than 10 years, just liked having weddings. Worked with a girl that had married 4x by age 25. I think how committed you are is what matters, not time together pre-wedding. I have only married once- big mistake- now I know better what to look for in a partner. Big weddings don't guarantee long marriages either. In many cases, the financial strain of trying to create an Instagram worthy event will cause hardship on the relationship. H$M didn't pay for the £32 million/ $42 million dollar event, so that wasn't an issue for them. I can image M spending is probably grating on cheapskate H though. Both like freebies but someone has to pay for electricity, water, pool and lawn maintenance, staff, PR, diapers, botox, fillers, etc.
Law of averages says time is the essence of getting to know someone extremely well. 🥴Regardless, we are talking about a royal marriage here, not your average marriage prospect and lifestyle. Royals need to know whether their future spouse is up to the job of being a suitable working royal….Mole clearly wasn’t interested in all that. 😳
So it's OK for him to use the expression but not William?
Bloody hypocrite!
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Sussexes' trademark bid for Archewell hits the skids in America.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9758681/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Sussexes-trademark-bid-Archewell-hits-skids-America.html
There is a Archwell Health (notice - no "E")>
Archwell Solutions LLC.....
Archwell lighting......
and google searches also show the 6/6w foundation as Archewell and Archwell in hits.
Six months folks - six months....
@Sir Stinx a Lot, I have a theory about marriage that goes:
The bigger the wedding band and the flashier the diamond ring, the shorter the marriage.
My ex was an MD and did these marriage seminars for prospective couples before the wedding at the neighbourhood church as a favour to the priest. Two years later, only 1 out of 5 couples would still be together, typically. And these are people who had big church weddings....
"I would just change one thing: "Harry and MM LIVE ETERNALLY ON Chunga-Changa Island.
Perfect!
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Miggy...👏"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's plans for world domination have hit a stumbling block" (Pinky and the Brain)
They had set up a similar 'not-for-profit' organisation, Sussex Royal, but were banned from using the word 'royal' when they quit official duties. They declared that they planned to become 'financially independent' members of the Royal Family.
I love how they subtly remind the public that H$M wanted to financially independent. Yet they continue to ask for taxpayers funding. Cannot have both.
Oh this could be fun....just did a google search and:
There is a Archwell Health (notice - no "E")>
Archwell Solutions LLC.....
Archwell lighting......
and google searches also show the 6/6w foundation as Archewell and Archwell in hits.
Six months folks - six months....
July 6, 2021 at 2:15 AM
Either Catherine Saint Laurent was too busy fetching coffee and sleeping floors, or she is another overrated do nothing manager. Any guesses?
Regarding the 6’s supposed invitations to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Lady C is, of course, correct :-) Invitations to this type of event are issued about six weeks in advance. I highly doubt that the Queen is so anxious to have the 6’s at her Jubilee that she sent them a “Save the Date” card a year in advance. Also, if I recall correctly from the prior Jubilee, not long after the invitations were issued, a list of proposed guests was published. So far, no one other than the 6’s has publicized an invitation and no tentative list has been announced. How sad are the 6’s…?
Also, thank you to the Nutty who posted the info on the DM comments related to Archie’s and Lili’s transfer to the 6’s. In all seriousness, I had forgotten the 6’s now have a second child. When was M supposed to have given birth? … and still no pics — not even an elbow or a shadow? No teaser articles? 6 clams up when a sick child at a charity event asks to see a photo of Lili? This is even more strange than Archie’s introduction to the world. Who would have thought that was possible?
Phee
1 day ago
If Caring and Sharing is the brand they are going with.
Caring about themselves.
And Sharing family secrets.
Well that's one hell of a brand.
Please state your reasons.
Unless you have been posting as an Unknown, I haven't seen that many comments from you for review before publishing. Unknown comments are generally not permitted.
Podcasts are easy because there is no video. Their sugars and Royal reporters would love to hear Megs and H expounding on Harry's tapping/eye therapy. To hear about the real or mythical babies. How Megs is doing with the new baby.
I see two possible reasons.
#1--Their money situation is OK, so they see no reason to exert themselves with podcasts. If so then they might have top secret backers who want to take down the BRF. Or at least to have M/H continually mock, embarrass and denigrate the BRF.
Possibility #2--
That the Dastardlies are hurting financially so are very wary of antagonizing the BRF any further. Even paranoid of doing this. They eternally hope for more cash from Dad. They always strive to put out a Royal adjacent image. M/H could inadvertently blow this up in a podcast. Their sugars and camp followers will want to hear at least something BRF related in a podcast in addition to what?
If I were M/H I would get someone to write a tight script to read from that would be a twice monthly report podcast on innocuous matters such as feeding the chickens. How the children are doing. How the entire family had a great day out visiting a farm with animals such as goats and piglets. Megs favorite recipe for avocado toast. How they spent July 4th and saw fireworks. A day at the beach with friends.
The key would be having a ghostwriter that will write, review, keep it disciplined with no mistakes. Nothing to piss off The Royals.
Podcasts are easy because there is no video.
Exactly! The Archewell Audio thing is something she could have done even while waiting for her latest nose to heal. When they announced it, we all braced ourselves for regular content in her voice -- and she surely loves her own voice.
At first I thought it was because the listener numbers were embarrassingly low. But I've just checked and Spotify doesn't show the streaming stats on podcast episodes the way it does on songs. She could have bragged that she had a record number of streams at her debut and even we, who have carefully observed her lying and smearing patterns, would still have to wait for a whistleblower or some other smoking gun to prove it was a lie.
Then I supposed that she wasn't able to line up the high-profile guests she wanted -- because of how she treated the first guests she got. And "guests" should be in quotation marks because she and Harry barely fulfilled any duties as "hosts." Even Uncle Elton and James Corden, still willing to be helpful, must have been put off to hear they had to record "audio diaries" instead of being interviewed. They were practically producing their own segments for free and just being credited as guests. I wonder if Harry's wife even had the audacity to send a few recordings back and ask that they be redone to her specifications. It would fit her pattern of laziness and entitlement. In any case, she treated her first "guests" so badly that she either couldn't get second ones or only attracted ones that weren't high-profile enough for her.
Meghan Markle's picture book The Bench is not being stocked in the Queen's online store.
The Duchess of Sussex's 169-word effort was not included in the online Royal Collection Shop 'storytime' section of children’s books.
They include Paddington at the Palace for £6.99 and Peppa Pig Meets The Queen for £4.99.
That won't fill the coffers in Montecito.
NEIL SEAN'S SHOWBIZ
Meghan Markle Prince Harry planning next explosive bomb !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXQR2RDqtO8
https://mobile.twitter.com/jojo_marsh/status/1411480032099373065/photo/1
Neil's analysis is spot-on. What people really want from the Harkles at this point is a sit-down with an interviewer who is "friendly, but not a friend" and who will ask questions the Harkles don't have a chance to rehearse beforehand. And ideally those questions would address the secret wedding, the bullying claims, and the exact reasons why royal life was so difficult for Harry's wife. To name just a few topics.
And if they fail to secure an interviewer, they could answer questions submitted by the public. While I love this idea, for obvious reasons, I can see them falling back on both curating the questions and rehearsing their answers. No one will get much transparency here, either.
Basically, the only thing that will save their PR is for the public to perceive them as honest. Hey, good luck!
Have either of you listened to the YouTube channel piece? 🥴It’s not what you think it is. It’s not about an upcoming interview. They’ve been called out and how their PR strategy has failed. So this short piece is about how they should have addressed their concerns in the first place, how they should have been interviewed and truly whether they can but back support of those who once liked them. 😃
I'm not sure I understand you. Neil Sean says in the video that the Harkles wanting to do another interview is a story that is breaking in London today. (06/07/21) Not that we've seen any evidence of it yet!
@Enbrethiliel,
Agree with you. Not in a million years do I think the Harkles would ever agree to an interview without first vetting the questions.
Saw this on twitter,
NEIL SEAN'S SHOWBIZ
Meghan Markle Prince Harry planning next explosive bomb !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXQR2RDqtO8
I agree with @ Raspberry Ruffle on this --
Blogger Raspberry Ruffle said...
@Miggy and WBBM
Have either of you listened to the YouTube channel piece? 🥴It’s not what you think it is. It’s not about an upcoming interview. They’ve been called out and how their PR strategy has failed. So this short piece is about how they should have addressed their concerns in the first place, how they should have been interviewed and truly whether they can but back support of those who once liked them. 😃
A lot of the comments boil down to "trust is not easily regained once it is broken" (to which I add, "if ever"). One person likened them to the boy who cried wolf -- even if they answered some interviewer's questions honestly, no one will believe them.
On a lighter note, one commenter accused another of being "gingerist" 🤣
Blogger Miggy said...
@Raspberry Ruffle,
I'm not sure I understand you. Neil Sean says in the video that the Harkles wanting to do another interview is a story that is breaking in London today. (06/07/21) Not that we've seen any evidence of it yet!
Especially this -- (emphasis mine) --
@Enbrethiliel,
Agree with you. Not in a million years do I think the Harkles would ever agree to an interview without first vetting the questions.
INFLUENCE-HEIRS
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry quit royal duties for LA to be "social impact influencers", their former chief of staff has revealed.
Catherine St-Laurent, who quit her top role after less than a year, confirmed the couple stepped back to become "talented and creative leaders" instead.
The Duke and Duchess vowed they'd continue with a lifetime of "service" - after the Queen confirmed they'd be stripped of their royal titles after Megxit.
And now Ms St-Laurent, who left a plum job with Bill and Melinda Gates to work as Harry and Meghan’s chief of staff last year, has revealed their plans for the future.
ROFL, what service? I think I know the services that 6w provided, but what about 6?
Court Jester?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9760277/Duchess-Cornwall-named-patron-horse-charity-supporting-mental-health.html
Can you imagine the Harkles being honest about ANYTHING?
Nope, me neither.
The Duchess of Cornwall has been named patron for the organisation HorseBack UK, which provides help to those needing mental health support, and runs courses for former and serving members of the armed forces suffering from both physical and mental life-changing injuries.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9760277/Duchess-Cornwall-named-patron-horse-charity-supporting-mental-health.html
GOOD for her! :)
I was one who side-eyed her after she and Charles got married, even tho I figured they were probably each other's soul mates. Over time, tho, she has quietly proven herself to "walk the walk" where royal duty, and real caring, is concerned. Now I am a fan.
Plus, she (and the Cambridges) are out-mental-healthing the pathetic S's by a hundred miles, and actually doing excellent work using their platforms to make a real difference. Not that the S's have the slightest idea what that means!
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July 6, 2021 at 2:09 PM
Blogger Miggy said...
@Lt,
Can you imagine the Harkles being honest about ANYTHING?
Nope, me neither.
Nor me. For them to be actually honest, they'd have to carry around the equivalent of anti-vampire garlic or something, or take some kind of voodoo potion that allows them honesty for one hour.
Seems to me I recall a skit somewhere, where the comic tries to admit he was wrong, but all he can get out is "I was wr- .... I was wro- ...."
Yes, I did watch it 'tho was scratching my head as to why it was accompanied by a shot of the Royal Albert Hall - that's a concert hall, like the nearby Victoria & Albert Museum, paid for apparently out of profits from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Not a royal palace at all! At least it's fairly close to KP.
I took his point that they had screwed up big time in the PR dept and then started wondering which probing interviewer would be acceptable to them -and who would be prepared to do the job and face down her rage.
Frankly, I think it's an impossibility.
If only we could get them in the dock at the Old Bailey (under arrest), with a ruthless cross-examining barrister and a judge who pre-1967 would have been considered a `hanging judge'.
Is there anyone tough enough?
/Sorry, y'all, I was out of town when this was being discussed.
And does anyone else think it took a really long time for them to sit down with Oprah? I had expected it in 2020. I wonder what conditions Oprah had to agree to before "the daughter she never had" deigned to grant her that exclusive. And in the end, it wasn't even worth it. Oprah has been distancing herself from the Harkles ever since, first with her "surprise" that Harry's wife went "all the way there" and then with her preemptively declining to be a godmother to Baby$2.
@SwampWoman
What about the `flagon with the dragon'?
In the days of continuous programmes at British cinemas, Mum & I sat through that film for 2 showings, instead of leaving when it got to `This is where we came in'. We loved it!
Is the public exasperated because 6 should have long outgrown the mugging for the camera and acting silly? I thought he was making an ass of himself and detracting from his mother's memory. Forget about Mummy, look at MEEEEEEE!
/Sorry, y'all, I was out of town when this was being discussed.
No worries :)
I would say less "exasperated" than "disgusted." To me, it's clear he was acting out M's script, due to all the negative press about how "down" he's been looking since they got married -- he was under orders to cut some "Good Ol' Harry" capers, IMO.
Instead, as you said, the net result was narcissistic attention-seeking and absolutely inappropriate behavior.
P.S. Tie down that lawn furniture! SE Florida me, and they're calling for Elsa to more or less skirt around my area -- not sure where in FL you're at, but better safe than sorry!
"Cash point Charles" "Duchy money spigot" "Checkbook Charlie" ..... You used to hear these pithy phrases all the time. Charles can sensibly avoid the internet as much as he wants to. But undoubtedly his courtiers told him more than a few times what is out there at DM commentary, Harry Markle Blog, Lady-C and elsewhere. Perhaps here too! Thus if Charles was going to continue sending money to Montecito aka money down a rathole, this would shame him and wake him up. The disdain that roiled Hoi Polloi of Great Britain had/have for him funding the runaway Royales.
When you watch Harry's bizarre behavior in slo-mo, it's so obvious what a craven little s(p)it he is. Thought he could cruise in and resume the 'Jolly Hazza, Life of the Party' persona. He barely looked at the statue at all, and William barely looked at Harry. Sad. Entertaining, but sad.
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Can you spot the Wedding Ring touches??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M47V3qZ-yhE
(Christopher Geidt, Baron Geidt - Wikipedia)
Same as your common back bencher politicians, Royals have constituents they must keep happy. Ignore this at your own peril - Charles!_____________ When King Charles, you are already going to start off as less popular, less esteemed than The Queen. You have no room to mess up.
Hikari - I will be looking at that body language video. With Hapless showing off what we call in the US, "frat moves". What our college fraternity boys do that is juvenile. Exaggerated of course for full internet effect.
The Body Language Guy is great! I did notice that the brothers were in sync during certain moments, which was nice to see. As for the wedding ring touches, I've been spotting them for years. And I'll never forget the sugars who noticed them, too, and said: "Isn't so sweet that Harry misses his wife so much that he has to touch his wedding ring when she's not around?" How can we all be seeing the same things and reading them so differently?
My feeling is that H is trying to worm his way back whereas Wm is Grey-Rock or on the point of No Contact.
I had a similar situation with my last narc - it was at a mutual friend's Golden Wedding do - narc hailed me all, all smiles, and my thought was `She thinks she's got me where she wants me. No way'. I engaged with her as little as possible.
From The Sun...
INFLUENCE-HEIRS
Catherine St-Laurent, who quit her top role after less than a year, confirmed the couple stepped back to become "talented and creative leaders" instead.
How exactly was that supposed to work? One does not BECOME talented and creative; one has to BE talented and creative. Which, obviously, these two are not.
P.S. Tie down that lawn furniture! SE Florida me, and they're calling for Elsa to more or less skirt around my area -- not sure where in FL you're at, but better safe than sorry!
Thanks for the thought! Glad you're going to be missing most of it. NE Florida here, and I'm going to be on the east side of the TS or whatever it will be when it gets to me. I'm not sure that it will lose that much strength since we've had a LOT of rain and standing water is everywhere. Rivers and creeks (and streets!) are at flood stage before rainmaker Elsa arrives. Regardless, it is going to be another huge rain event (my rain gauge says 5" fell here over the weekend) and we'll probably get that much again in the next two days, hooray!
A friend in the northwest's gardens and livestock are dying from the heat. My gardens and livestock are dying from flooding!
I've been trying to move (newly hatched) chicks and layers in movable pens (so that they get fresh grass daily) to higher ground and get the grass mowed in anticipation of being flooded and not being able to mow because of flooding but there isn't that much grass that isn't underwater!
@Miggy said...
From The Sun...
INFLUENCE-HEIRS
Catherine St-Laurent, who quit her top role after less than a year, confirmed the couple stepped back to become "talented and creative leaders" instead.
How exactly was that supposed to work? One does not BECOME talented and creative; one has to BE talented and creative. Which, obviously, these two are not.
I think Ms. St-Laurent is doing two things: 1) Slyly "taking the mickey," as the British say, by going OTT. Kind of like H'Wood types when they gush all over someone at a party, "Dahhhhhh-ling, you look fabulous!" when the "fabulous" one looks like a fashion mug shot. And 2) Keeping her options open for future employment. No one wants to hire someone who slags off their former employer.
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July 6, 2021 at 6:24 PM
Blogger SwampWoman said...
,,, A friend in the northwest's gardens and livestock are dying from the heat. My gardens and livestock are dying from flooding!
I've been trying to move (newly hatched) chicks and layers in movable pens (so that they get fresh grass daily) to higher ground and get the grass mowed in anticipation of being flooded and not being able to mow because of flooding but there isn't that much grass that isn't underwater!
Ugh, flooding. As if high winds weren't bad enough.
It all depends on how fast the system moves through -- so far, the weather site I'm following says it's going about 10 mph. Hopefully it speeds up and doesn't stall -- everything crossed for you! And prayers, which I happen to think actually work :)
Keep those chickies and everyone else, especially yourself, safe @ (((SwampWoman)))
Re: NEIL SEAN'S SHOWBIZ
Meghan Markle Prince Harry planning next explosive bomb !
…….Not that we've seen any evidence of it yet!
My apologies to you,🤗 I was in a hurry this morning and I didn’t go into detail with what I meant. Lt Nyota Uhura got behind my meaning and read between the lines. I said there’s no interview because the Duo can’t and won’t be honest, what could they possibly say if they were asked what really happen? They aren’t going to say they exaggerated or lied. 😳As Lt Nyota Uhura said "trust is not easily regained once it is broken" (to which I add, "if ever"). One person likened them to the boy who cried wolf -- even if they answered some interviewer's questions honestly, no one will believe them. It’s exactly this. 🥴
WBBM said, I took his point that they had screwed up big time in the PR dept and then started wondering which probing interviewer would be acceptable to them -and who would be prepared to do the job and face down her rage.
Frankly, I think it's an impossibility.
If only we could get them in the dock at the Old Bailey (under arrest), with a ruthless cross-examining barrister and a judge who pre-1967 would have been considered a `hanging judge'.
Is there anyone tough enough?
Yes, and I agree. No one will do the interview, they won’t allow honest reporting and so yes, it’s an impossibility because they will always want to control the narrative or face manic out of control rage by the pair of them methinks. 🤨
just read the richard eden piece about archwell. Im an american and i was confused by what he was talking about. Is the move into podcasts and other content the issue with the 501c3 status. Clearly someone gave him some scoop but not sure what that scoop is.
The Harkles were never her endgame, but they were a chance to jump ship as quickly as possible. She likely spent those few months with them looking for a job that she really wanted. Had she done that job hunting while still with the Gates, she might have snapped up the first opportunity that presented itself, whether or not it was ideal. The position with the Harkles let her bide her time.
I'm less impressed with the Body Language Guy - it's `mirroring' (producing symmetry not mimicking) that speaks of empathy. They'd have looked like bookends as they faced the sculpture if they were empathetic.
I think to get the measure of Jesus's grasp of his subject you have to watch several of these videos. His accent is at times hard to understand, but I think he knows his stuff. He points out that in the *very beginning* of the video, as the brothers come out and kiss their aunts that they appear to be mirroring each other in synchronicity--and they do, for a few brief moments their body movements are nearly identical. But that is just at the start before they even reach the statue. The mirrored movements fall apart very quickly and it's apparent that these two are not empathetic. He does say that Harry, the younger brother is *mimicking* William's movements as well as trying to get his attention, so if there was a short window in which the brothers were in sync it certainly didn't last long.
With his twitchiness, arms akimbo and inappropriate smiling, it was an utterly juvenile and jangly display from Harry. Running on nerves and no doubt, a cocktail of chemical substances . . and he was under orders from his Commandant to get photo ops of him appearing to be forgiven and welcomed by his future sovereign. William was having none of it. His body language was the very picture of stoicism. He might have himself been carved from granite at points, which just served to make Harry look like an annoying dog trying to engage his master's attention, and failing. William has always been more self-contained, but he has really mastered the art of stillness--a needful skill for a King.
My feeling is that H is trying to worm his way back whereas Wm is Grey-Rock or on the point of No Contact.
Absolutely. It was quite amazing how William managed to conduct this whole tableau with so few looks in Harry's direction. He stared resolutely ahead at the statue, the entire purpose for their convening there at all--Haz glanced at it once but spent the rest of the time trying to catch William's eye. I hadn't really clocked Lady Sarah moving in between the brothers until seeing it in this video. It's notable how she attaches herself to William's side; she says something to him--something soothing to head off his punching Harry in the face, perhaps? Very interesting, this. I had rather thought that the relations between William particularly and his Spencer relatives were frosty after Earl Spencer's incendiary eulogy of his sister. Harry and his wife want everyone to believe that his Spencer aunts feel so warmly toward him that they were honored guests and potential godmothers to Archie at his christening . . the, in my opinion, formal portrait denoting an event that never occurred. It was clear which side Lady Sarah was on that day.
Harry is in Siberia. Imagine coming across the North American continent and the Atlantic Ocean and quarantining for days only to be dismissed by all of your relatives as persona non grata and removing yourself back to the airport after 20 minutes. He spent less time in his relatives' company after that trip than it took to get to the airport. Then a very long flight back to think about how to plot his revenge.
What a joke. Thank God for Catherine and her family because without the Middletons, who would help William carry all his present and future burdens? His father? Charles has his own preoccupations and reasons for being jealous of his own son.
We have been so used to thinking of Diana's boys as a unit, standing strong together against their loss and the pressures of their role. But I think we are seeing the Harry that William has always known and had to be wary of--the ne'er do well, unreliable, emotionally disturbed little sh*t that demands his way at any cost. The one who the Taliban (the *Taliban*) deemed mentally disturbed back in 2013 for his inappropriate response to warfare as videogame. William has never been able to rely on Harry but when they were younger, superficial bonhomie was possible. No longer, and William is not playing the game and catering to Harry's diseased and delusional mind any more.
It's been really bad in the House of Windsor for a long time, with Diana's youngest but they were able to largely contain the truth about Harry. Now that he's freerange in the world, that is not possible, and he and TW are going to continue to weaponize the media against the RF whenever they need money or attention. So . . unceasingly. It's going to be a bumpy ride and it's not over by a long shot.